When you create or expand a site by using an existing site, follow these guidelines:
Importing a complex site requires processing time. If the source site was created in Corel Website Creator X6, it is more efficient to import it as a template.
You can import an existing site from a local or networked drive, or from a remote location such as an intranet server or the World Wide Web.
To import from a local drive, you must know the drive and folder where the site’s Home page, usually named index.htm or index.html, is stored.
To import from a remote location, you must know the URL to the site’s top-level source page, such as http://www.corel.com.
Corel Website Creator X6 does not import sites that are served behind a proxy server, firewall, or virtually hosted server. You must download the site to the local hard drive and then import from the local drive.
You can limit the number of pages and levels that Corel Website Creator X6 captures from a local or remote site. Levels are based on the hierarchy of pages in the source site, defined by the site’s navigation; the first level is always the site’s Home page. The second level consists of pages that are linked from the Home page. Third-level pages are linked from second-level pages, and so on. Corel Website Creator X6 imports as many pages as possible at a higher level before going to a lower level.
You must be connected to the Internet or intranet to activate the remote import.
When Corel Website Creator X6 imports a site, it starts with the page you specify and stops importing when it hits the page number limit, the site level limit, or the end of the site. If you don’t define import limits, Corel Website Creator X6 imports to the end of the site—no matter how long that takes or how much it requires in system resources. Corel recommends limits of 200 pages and 20 levels.
When you create a new site from an imported site, Corel Website Creator X6 applies the ZeroMargins MasterBorder. If you expand a site by importing a section, you can apply any MasterBorder already in the site. If you import a Corel Website Creator X5 or Corel Website Creator X6 site, MasterBorders in the original site are preserved.
HTML coding practices vary, so the contents of the source site pages are unpredictable. Spaces in .html file names cause import problems.
Corel Website Creator X6 does not import server-side imagemaps or manage server-side resources. If the imported site originally used server resources such as JavaScripts, CGI scripts, or server-side includes, you must manually recreate these on your server. If a page contains too much script, you can reference the HTML. See Referencing and Editing External HTML.
Corel Website Creator X6 imports all HTML tables in the site.
Corel Website Creator X6’s import feature supports most of the HTML 4.01 specification. Cascading style sheet coding is removed from pages during import. Content with no other alignment formatting is placed flush left on its page.
When you import a site that was built using HTML frames, Corel Website Creator X6 imports the frameset’s content pages as regular pages, and references the original frameset page as an external HTML page.
Sites created in Corel Website Creator X5 generally import with few problems, but you should be prepared to clean up an imported site created from another source. Adjust font sizes and styles as needed, and add Corel Website Creator X6 navigation bars and banners as appropriate to your design. If a page does not import the way you expect, check the original source file for incorrect or nonstandard HTML code.